• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @Gutenberg: Gulliver of Mars by Edwin Lester Linden Arnold
  • @Manybooks: "A Question of Courage" by J. F. Bone (1960).
  • @Horror World: "Simple" by Al Sarrantonio. [via Free SF Reader]
  • @The Edge of Propinquity: New fiction by Jennifer Brozek, Rick Silva, James M. Sullivan, Ivan Ewert, and Daniel Johnson. [via Variety SF]
  • @The Future Fire: A new issue featuring fiction by David Dumitru, Michael Johnson, William J. Piovano, and Rob Sharp.
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @Escape Pod: "Unlikely" by Will McIntosh, read by Stephen Eley.
    • @Beam Me Up: Part two of "Uxo Bomb Dog" by Eliot Fintushel, read by Paul Cole.
    • @LibriVox: Vol. one of The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night translated by Richard Francis Burton, read by several readers.


• Interviews & Profiles:
  • @Sidebar: Cathy & Arnie Fenner, the creators of the Spectrum series of art fantastic books.
  • @The Mumpsimus: Brian Francis Slattery (Spaceman Blues and Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America).
  • @The Guardian: Jeff Bridges answers some Tron questions.


• Kristine Kathryn Rusch shows off the cover of Duplicate Effort, the next book in the Retrieval Artist series.


• Book publishers and libraries are trying to use video games to get kids interested in reading. [via Paolo Bacigalupi]


• Fictionautics looks at Speculative Fiction and Genres: "On the cross-pollination of genres - it's already been done, and it's still being done (not just here, but internationally), and folks don't care as long as it's good."


• Sci Fi Writers Have No Sense Of Scale: "Most people can't get their minds around just how big the universe is. So it should come as no surprise that most Speculative Fiction writers can't either."


• Film School Rejects shares a gallery of Iron Man concept art.


• Karel Capek's robot-play R.U.R. is headed for the stage! In the meantime, read an English translation here. [via Futurismic]

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